Comments on: Yakshaving Chronicles: SFU English Department – No English for you! http://www.countablyinfinite.ca/blog/2008/01/no-english-for-you/ a dash of impossibility makes for more fun Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:58:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Maggie http://www.countablyinfinite.ca/blog/2008/01/no-english-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-73671 Maggie Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:13:20 +0000 http://www.countablyinfinite.ca/blog/2008/01/no-english-for-you/#comment-73671 Hi, Karen. Wow, that is so annoying when the people who are supposed to know tell you to take a particular action (in your case, no action--not declaring) and then it costs you down the road. I'm sorry you lost your minor. But it sounds like you are doing very well in spite of it. I'm an English major, and managing fine, but doing an honours essay and frankly I'm overwhelmed right now, but I know it will turn out okay. Good luck in the future, Karen! Hi, Karen.
Wow, that is so annoying when the people who are supposed to know tell you to take a particular action (in your case, no action–not declaring) and then it costs you down the road. I’m sorry you lost your minor. But it sounds like you are doing very well in spite of it.
I’m an English major, and managing fine, but doing an honours essay and frankly I’m overwhelmed right now, but I know it will turn out okay.
Good luck in the future, Karen!

]]> By: Sacha http://www.countablyinfinite.ca/blog/2008/01/no-english-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-35774 Sacha Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:53:13 +0000 http://www.countablyinfinite.ca/blog/2008/01/no-english-for-you/#comment-35774 People in the system that try to exercise power through bureaucratic procedures really sour the experience for a lot of people. It is also damaging to the university - in my particular instance, when they called a couple years after I graduated to see if I would donate some money for some scholarship fund, the first thing I could think of was an incident with one of the faculty. So I told the person on the phone to put me on the "do not call" list and for the university to never get in touch with me again. If I ever get a hundred million in my bank account, the last place I would choose for a philanthropic grant would be academia. I'd rather build a library. People in the system that try to exercise power through bureaucratic procedures really sour the experience for a lot of people.

It is also damaging to the university – in my particular instance, when they called a couple years after I graduated to see if I would donate some money for some scholarship fund, the first thing I could think of was an incident with one of the faculty. So I told the person on the phone to put me on the “do not call” list and for the university to never get in touch with me again.

If I ever get a hundred million in my bank account, the last place I would choose for a philanthropic grant would be academia. I’d rather build a library.

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